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The truth about spider bites in Australia – they're unlikely to eat your flesh

  • Written by Ronelle Welton, Scientist AVRU, University of Melbourne

Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the man’s...

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